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European Globalisation Adjustment Fund 2014-2020 (debate)
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REPORT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (2014 - 2020) PDF (846 KB) DOC (1 MB)
Amendments (23)
Amendment 77 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 5
Recital 5
Amendment 81 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 6
Recital 6
(6) In order to maintain the European nature of the EGF, an application for support should be triggered when the number of redundancies reaches a minimum threshold. In small labour markets, such as small Member States or remote regions, and in exceptional circumstances, applications may be submitted for a lower number of redundancies. As regards farmers, the necessary criteria should be determined by the Commission in relation to the consequences of each trade agreementIn general individual dismissals by companies cannot be covered.
Amendment 88 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Redundant workers should have equal access to the EGF independently of their type of employment contract or employment relationship. Therefore, workers with fixed term contracts and temporary agency workers made redundant as well as owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises, farmers and self- employed workers who cease their activities and farmers who change or adjust their activities to a new market situation following trade agreementhave to cease their current activities, should be regarded as redundant workers for the purposes of this Regulation.
Amendment 102 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) When drawing up the coordinated package of active labour market policy measures, Member States should favour measures that will significantly contribute to the employability of the redundant workers. Member States should strive towards the reintegration into employment or new activities of at least 50 % of the targeted workers within 126 months of the date of applicationafter the completion of the measures.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) In order to ensure that the Union's expression of solidarity with workers is not hampered by a lack of Member State co- funding resources, the co-funding rate should be modulated, with a maximum 50 % contribution to the cost of the package and its implementation as the norm, and the possibility to raise this rate to up to 650 % in the case of applications submitted by those Member States on the territory of which at least one region at NUTS II level is eligible under the ‘"Convergence’" objective of the Structural Funds and if the workers concerned come from this region, as well as up to 85% in case of applications submitted by a Member State which receive financial support from the European Financial Stability Facility.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) To facilitate the implementation of this Regulation, expenditure should be eligible either from the date on which a Member State incurs administrative expenditure for implementing the EGF or from the date on which a Member State starts to provide personalised services or, in the case of farmers, from the date set in a Commission act in accordance with Article 4(3)from the date on which a Member State starts to provide personalised services.
Amendment 117 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) In order to cover the needs arising during the final months of each year, it is necessary to ensure that at least one quarter of the annual maximum amount of the EGF remains available on 1 September. Financial contributions made during the remainder of the year should be allocated taking into account the overall ceiling laid down for support to farmers in the Multiannual Financial Framework.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) The European Monitoring Centre on Change (EMCC), based in EU Agency Eurofound in Dublin, assists the European Commission and the Member State concerned with qualitative and quantitative analyses in order to help in the evaluation of trends of globalisation and utilisation of EGF fund.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Article 1 – paragraph 3
Actions benefiting from financial contributions by the Fund pursuant to Article 2(a) and (b) shall aim to ensure that a minimum of 50 % of workers participating in these actions find stable employment within a year from the date of applicationwill be reintegrated into employment or find a new activity within 6 months after the completion of the measures.
Amendment 153 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) ‘a worker’ means temporary agency workers as defined in Article 3 of Directive 2008/104/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council , whose user undertaking is an enterprise in accordance with Article 4(1)(a) or (b), and whose assignment to the user undertaking ends and is not renewed within the period set out in that point of Article 4, excluding seasonal workers; or
Amendment 155 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
Article 3 – paragraph 1 – point d
(d) ‘a worker’ means owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and, self- employed workers (includingand farmers) and all members of the household active in the business, provided that, if farmers, they were already producing the output affected by the relevant trade agreement before the measures concerning the specific sector were implementedwho gave up their current work.
Amendment 177 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 4
Article 4 – paragraph 4
4. Where owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and, self- employed workers change or, in the case of farmers, adjust their previous activities, such situations shall be considered as redundancies for the purposes of this Regulationand farmers not performing their activities any longer.
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) For owner-managers of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises and, self- employed workers (includingand farmers), the redundancy shall be counted either from the date of cessation of the activities caused by any of the conditions set out in Article 2, and determined in accordance with national law or administrative provisions, or from the date specified by the Commission in the delegated act adopted in accordance with the Article 4(3).
Amendment 200 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point a
(a) job-search assistance, occupational guidance, advisory services, mentoring, outplacement assistance, entrepreneurship promotion, aid for self-employment and business start-up or for changing or adjusting activity (including investments in physical assets), co-operation activities, tailor-made training and re-training, including information and communication technology skills and certification of acquired experience;
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
Article 7 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point b
(b) special time-limited measures, such as job-search allowances, employers' recruitment incentives, mobility allowances, subsistence or training allowances (including allowances for carers or farm relief services), all of which limited to the duration of the documented active job search or life-long learning or training activities;
Amendment 218 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
Article 7 – paragraph 2 – point a
(a) special time-limited measures as listed in paragraph 1 (b) which are not conditional upon the active participation of the targeted workers in job-search or training activities, measures that can be considered as substitute for unemployment benefits;
Amendment 220 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 7 – paragraph 3
Article 7 – paragraph 3
3. At the initiative of the applicant Member State, a financial contribution up to a maximum of 5% of the funding amounts request may be made for the preparatory, management, information, cooperation with the responsible social partners (works council) of workers targeted for support and publicity, control and reporting activities.
Amendment 221 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 8 – paragraph 1
Article 8 – paragraph 1
1. The Member State shall submit a complete application to the Commission within a period of 12 weeks from the date on which the criteria set in Article 4(1) or (2) are met or, where applicable, before the deadline set by the Commission in accordance with Article 4(3). In exceptional and duly justified circumstances the application may be supplemented with additional information by the applicant Member State within sixthree months from the date of application, following which the Commission shall assess the application on the basis of the available information. The Commission shall complete its assessment of the application within twelve weeks of the date of receipt of a complete application or (in the case of an incomplete application) sixfour months after the date of the initial application, whichever is the earlier.
Amendment 253 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1
Article 13 – paragraph 1
1. The Commission shall, on the basis of the assessment carried out in accordance with Article 8(3), particularly taking into account the number of targeted workers, the proposed actions and the estimated costs, evaluate and propose as quickly as possible the amount of a financial contribution, if any, that may be made within the limits of the resources available. The amount may not exceed 50 % of the total of the estimated costs referred to in Article 8(2)(e) or 65 % of these costs in the case of applications submitted by a Member State on the territory of which at least one region at NUTS II level is eligible under the ‘Convergence’ objective of the Structural Funds. The Commission, in its assessment of such cases, will decide whether the 65 % co-funding rate is justified.:
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point a (new)
(a) 50% of the total of the estimated costs referred to in Article 8(2)(e) or
Amendment 261 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point b (new)
(b) 60% of these costs in the case of applications submitted by a Member State on the territory of which at least one region at NUTS II level belongs to the category of 'Less developed regions' as laid down in Regulation XX/XXXX or
Amendment 263 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point c (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 – point c (new)
(c) 85% of these costs in the case of applications submitted by a Member State receiving financial assistance under one of the conditions as laid down in Article 77 of Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 as 1 or from the European Financial Stability Facility;
Amendment 284 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 20 – paragraph 2
Article 20 – paragraph 2
2. The results of the evaluation shall be transmitted, for information, to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the social partners. If the evaluation determines that the objective in Article 1 has not been reached, the financial contribution shall be refunded proportionately.